Video Notes:
In a world that often only cares about “what will work,” Christ calls us to care about what is right. “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote powerfully during the time of Hitler’s Third Reich, about the idolatry of success:
When a successful figure becomes especially prominent and conspicuous, the majority give way to the idolization of success….They become blind to right and wrong…They have eyes only for the deed, for the successful result. The moral…faculty is blunted. It is dazzled by the brilliance of the successful man and by the longing in some way to share in his success….The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard…
Taken from Pastor Colin’s sermon “The King’s Justice.”
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. (Proverbs 14:21) I know a guy who sold his business and went to be a missionary in Asia. While many young men were seeking success (whatever that means), he found it and left it to share...
Into the spectacle-loving world, with all of its spectacle makers and spectacle-making industries, came the grandest Spectacle ever devised in the mind of God and brought about in world history—the cross of Christ. It is the hinge of history where all time collides, where all human spectacles meet one unsurpassed,...
So, you’ve done it, graduates! You’ve completed what could possibly be one of the most challenging and important seasons of your life. You are about to enter a new environment and a set of new opportunities. It will be exciting but it will also bring great challenges. During this season...
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